Optical: systems and elements – Optical modulator – Light wave temporal modulation
Patent
1996-12-24
1998-07-07
Ben, Loha
Optical: systems and elements
Optical modulator
Light wave temporal modulation
345107, 427214, 349117, G02B 2600
Patent
active
057777829
ABSTRACT:
A gyricon or rotating-particle display having an auxiliary optical structure. The display includes a substrate with an optically transmissive window, a plurality of particles disposed in the substrate, and an optical focusing element optically coupled to the window. Each particle has an anisotropy for providing an electrical dipole moment, the electrical dipole moment rendering the particle electrically responsive such that when the particle is rotatably disposed in an electric field while the electrical dipole moment of the particle is provided, the particle tends to rotate to an orientation in which the electrical dipole moment aligns with the field. A rotatable disposition of each particle is achievable while the particle is thus disposed in the substrate; when the particle is in this rotatable disposition, it is not attached to the substrate. Each particle, when rotatably disposed in the substrate, is disposable in first and second rotational orientations with respect to the optically transmissive window. Each particle provides a first optical modulation characteristic when disposed in its first orientation with respect to a flux of optical energy through the window, and further provides a second optical modulation characteristic when disposed in its second orientation with respect to a flux of optical energy through the window. The optical focusing element can be optically refractive; for example, it can include an array of converging lenses, such as a "fly's-eye" array of microlenses. In this case, the particles can be disposed in an array that is registered with the lens array.
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Ben Loha
Silverman Alexander E.
Xerox Corporation
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